Isn't one of the performance criteria for an element of the PPL, under Unit C8:
Maintains radio communications and listening watch with ATS/ATC
How does one do that on 126.7?
Clare: If your students aren't being taught to monitor the area frequency, wherever they may go or be, my view is that they may not be as effective a participant in the system of safety as they might otherwise be. (But note: I'm a nobody.)
I agree it's a complete dog's breakfast (that I didn't cook).
Maybe it would be less of a dog's breafast if people at least complied with the rules that are clear (not many of those) and, if the clear rules are wrong, got them changed. (Good luck with that - did I say I was a nobody - and I'm jiggered if I know who's in charge of the rules.)